Bug 179697

Summary:	Handbook incomplete WRT Opera flash usage (linproc)
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	carlavilla, rene, rfg
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195209

Description Ronald F. Guilmette 2013-06-19 00:40:00 UTC

The Handbook describes how to install and use Opera on this page:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html

Unfortunately that page fails to mention that in order to make use of the
Flash plug-in with Opera, one has to first mount the "linproc" thingy.

Fix: 

The Handbook page mentioned above should describe what has to be added to
/etc/fstab in order to get the linproc pseudo-filesystem mounted.
How-To-Repeat: 
Install Opera and the associated flash plugin and then try to visit a page
containing some flash content.  It won't work until you mount the linproc
thing.

Comment 1 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer

2014-07-20 15:51:35 UTC

Note that it is now impossible to build the linux-f10-flashplugin11 port because dependencies are marked as forbidden (unless you manually modify the Makefiles).

Comment 2 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer

2014-07-20 15:58:45 UTC

Mounting linprocfs before starting www/opera does not seem to help for me, it detects no plugins at all.

I have linux-f10-flashplugin11 and opera-linuxplugins installed. Installing www/nspluginwrapper does not help either.

Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2018-05-28 19:49:05 UTC

batch change:

For bugs that match the following
-  Status Is In progress 
AND
- Untouched since 2018-01-01.
AND
- Affects Base System OR Documentation

DO:

Reset to open status.


Note:
I did a quick pass but if you are getting this email it might be worthwhile to double check to see if this bug ought to be closed.

Comment 4 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer

2020-01-26 13:18:14 UTC

Operas was removed from the Handbook in this PR #242495